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James Alton McDivitt American test pilot, United States Air Force pilot, aeronautical engineer, and NASA Astronaut ...has flown West.
Oct 18, 2022 18:24:31 #
DIRTY HARRY
Loc: Hartland, Michigan
We are greatly saddened to report that James Alton McDivitt American test pilot, United States Air Force pilot, aeronautical engineer, and NASA Astronaut ...has flown West.
McDivit flew 145 combat missions in the Korean War, chase pilot for Robert M. White's North American X-15 flight on July 17, 1962, Commanded the Gemini 4 mission, and March 3rd, 1969, Apollo 9 with McDivit as Commander, launched from our planet on a ten-day Earth orbital Lunar module test mission with lunar module "Spider" and the command module "Gumdrop. 10 days later, after successfully completing 151 orbits of our Earth, Apollo 9 splashed safely down in the Atlantic, where it was retrieved by the USS Guadalcanal
Brigadier General James A. McDivitt flew west today at the age of 93
(June 10, 1929 – October 13, 2022)
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Pictured: Prime crew of the Apollo 9 (Spacecraft 104/Lunar Module 3/Saturn 504). Left to right, are James A. McDivitt, commander; David R. Scott, command module pilot: and Russell L. Schweickart, lunar module pilot.
McDivit flew 145 combat missions in the Korean War, chase pilot for Robert M. White's North American X-15 flight on July 17, 1962, Commanded the Gemini 4 mission, and March 3rd, 1969, Apollo 9 with McDivit as Commander, launched from our planet on a ten-day Earth orbital Lunar module test mission with lunar module "Spider" and the command module "Gumdrop. 10 days later, after successfully completing 151 orbits of our Earth, Apollo 9 splashed safely down in the Atlantic, where it was retrieved by the USS Guadalcanal
Brigadier General James A. McDivitt flew west today at the age of 93
(June 10, 1929 – October 13, 2022)
www.Sierrahotel.net
Pictured: Prime crew of the Apollo 9 (Spacecraft 104/Lunar Module 3/Saturn 504). Left to right, are James A. McDivitt, commander; David R. Scott, command module pilot: and Russell L. Schweickart, lunar module pilot.
Oct 19, 2022 06:36:57 #
Oct 19, 2022 06:45:03 #
medphotog
Loc: Witness protection land
Nice guy and a darn good photographer capturing Ed White during the first US EVA on Gemini IV. (NASA Photos)
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Oct 19, 2022 07:07:32 #
May he RIP!Oct 19, 2022 08:18:07 #
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